Virtualization use cases addressed by Veritas InfoScale products

Veritas InfoScale product components support the following virtualization environment use cases:

Table: Virtualization use cases addressed by Veritas InfoScale Solutions in a Linux environment

Virtualization use case

Recommended Veritas InfoScale products

Virtualization technology supported

Implementation details

Server consolidation

SFHA or SFCFSHA in the guest

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) KVM

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) KVM

RHEV

Linux on Microsoft Hyper-V

How to run virtual machines as physical servers.

See Server consolidation.

Physical to virtual migration

SF in the host

SFHA or SFCFSHA

RHEL KVM

SLES KVM

RHEV

How to migrate data from physical to virtual environments safely and easily.

See Physical to virtual migration.

Simplified management

SFHA or SFCFSHA in the host

RHEL KVM

SLES KVM

RHEV

How to manage virtual machines using the same command set, storage namespace, and environment as in a non-virtual environment.

See Simplified management.

Application failover

VCS or SFHA in the guest

RHEL KVM

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV)

SLES KVM

Linux on VMware ESXi

Linux on Microsoft Hyper-V

How to manage application monitoring on virtual machines.

How to manage application failover on virtual machines.

See Cluster Server In a KVM Environment Architecture Summary.

Virtual-to-virtual (in-guest) clustering

VCS in the guest

RHEL KVM

RHEV

SLES KVM

Linux on Microsoft Hyper-V

Linux on VMware ESXi

Oracle Virtual Machine (OVM)

How to configure VCS for virtual-to-virtual clustering.

See Installing and configuring Cluster Server for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) virtual-to-virtual clustering.

See Installing and configuring Cluster Server for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) virtual-to-virtual clustering.

See Installing and configuring Cluster Server with Microsoft Hyper-V virtual-to-virtual clustering.

See Installing and configuring Cluster Server for Oracle Virtual Machine (OVM) virtual-to-virtual clustering.

Virtual machine availability

VCS in the host

RHEL KVM

RHEV

SLES KVM

How to manage virtual machine failover.

See VCS in host monitoring the Virtual Machine as a resource.

Virtual machine Live Migration

SFCFSHA in the host

RHEL KVM

SLES KVM

RHEV

How to use features such as instant snapshots to contain boot images and manage them from a central location in the host.

How to enable use of SSDs or HDDs by leveraging Flexible Shared Storage (FSS).

FSS value proposition: Storage provisioning offered by Veritas InfoScale Solutions in the host that would allow storage to be provisioned to virtual machines from a single pool having the same namespace across machines in a hypervisor cluster. The cluster need not have shared storage as local storage can be shared using the FSS option.

See About live migration.

Virtual machine Live Migration

SFCFSHA in the host

RHEV

How to use features such as instant snapshots to contain boot images and manage them from a central location in the host.

See About live migration.

Disaster recovery (DR) in the virtual environment

SFHA or SFCFSHA in the host

RHEV

How to configure virtual machines for disaster recovery.

How to configure SF as backend storage for virtual machines.

How to enable use of SSDs or HDDs by leveraging Flexible Shared Storage (FSS)

See About disaster recovery for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization virtual machines.

Application to storage visibility

Configuration for Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager use case

RHEL KVM

SLES KVM

RHEV

Linux on VMware ESXi

Microsoft Hyper-V

How to configure for storage to application visibility.

See About storage to application visibility using .

Managing docker containers

InfoScale Enterprise in the host

RHEV

How to manage storage, ensure high availability , migrate, and recover docker containers.

See About managing Docker containers with InfoScale Enterprise product.

Multi-tier Business service support

Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager, Virtual Business Service (VBS)

RHEL KVM

SLES KVM

RHEV

How to discover and configure devices for multi-tier application.

See About Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) virtualization discovery in Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager.

See About Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization discovery.

Note:

ApplicationHA is supported in the RHEL KVM environment only.